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Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11.1 Boot Environments     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Introduction to Managing Boot Environments

About Boot Environments and Datasets

Advantages to Maintaining Multiple Boot Environments

Tools for Managing Boot Environments

About the Package Manager

About the beadm Utility

beadm Utility Requirements

2.  beadm Zones Support

3.  Creating Boot Environments and Snapshots

4.  Administering Boot Environments

Index

Advantages to Maintaining Multiple Boot Environments

Multiple boot environments reduce risk when updating software because system administrators can create backup boot environments before making any software updates to the system. If needed, they have the option of booting a backup boot environment.

The following specific examples show how having more than one Oracle Solaris boot environment and managing them with the beadm utility can be useful.